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[New] Tonix expects small animal and non-human primate data from safety studies of TNX-1800 in COVID-19 models to measure safety and the immune response to the SARS-COV-2 Spike protein in the fourth quarter of 2020.
[New] NASA plans to send dozens of new instruments and technology experiments to study the Moon beginning next year, followed by human missions beginning in 2024 all as part of the Artemis program.
In 2015, China - which has the second highest rate of human rabies deaths in the world - pledged to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal to reach zero human deaths from canine rabies by 2030.
Covid-19 will further negatively impact national incomes in the following years because of lower investment, an erosion of human capital through lost work and schooling, and fragmentation of global trade and supply linkages.
Tesla founder Elon Musk tried to bridge the gap between humans and technology with his tech startup Neuralink, which plans to build implants that connect human brains with computer interfaces via AI.
The World Bank forecasts a 5.2% contraction in global GDP in 2020, the deepest global recession in decades, which are expected to leave lasting scars through lower investment, an erosion of human capital through lost work and schooling, and fragmentation of global trade and supply linkages.
Rapid urbanization currently taking place in Africa will drive further mosquito evolution, causing a shift toward human-biting in many large cities by 2050.
The human capital management (HCM) solutions market and it is poised to grow by USD 8.97 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 8% during the forecast period.
The German Federal Government plans to pass a supply chain act by the beginning of 2021 that will create binding regulations requiring companies to adhere to human rights and environmental protections.
The Democratic Alliance calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa and Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to prevent, on a major scale, the erosion of human rights in Zimbabwe and any further decline in reputation and investment risk to the entire region.
A new UN drive to increase global protected areas could lead to severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm if not backed by much stronger guarantees of the rights of indigenous people and other local communities.
While the next Change' e mission will be about returning lunar samples to Earth, NASA hopes that data from VIPER will inform the next phase of human exploration, due to kick off in 2024.
The Emirates has already launched two satellites and sent an astronaut to the International Space Station and it has vowed to build a human settlement on Mars by 2117.
The secondary effects of climate change, meaning the likely responses of human societies to rapidly changing climatic conditions, including the increased probability for nuclear conflict, are an even greater threat to the continuity of human civilization in the 21st century.
US government departments are issuing an advisory to caution businesses about the risks of supply chain links to entities that engage in human rights abuses, including forced labor in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China.
Increasing application of AI-based tools for taking care of older people and growing focus on improving human-aware AI systems will further energize the growth of the market in the coming years.
Augmenting human capabilities with artificial intelligence will create $2.9 trillion in business value and add 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity in 2021.
The United States has plans to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s under a program that envisions using a return to the moon as a testing platform for human missions before making the more ambitious crewed journey to Mars.
Rapid urbanization could push more mosquitoes to bite humans in many cities across sub-Saharan Africa over the next 30 years.
Protesters are pleased that Hong Kong will no longer be treated differently to other Chinese cities under the new US Hong Kong Autonomy Act, and that the US can now impose economic sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials for human rights violations.
Near-term climate change will not drive selection for major changes in mosquitoes preference, but that rapid urbanization could drive a shift to human-biting in many cities across sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.
The United States will pay $1.95 billion for Pfizer to produce and deliver 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the U.S. if it proves safe and effective in humans.
Assuming NASA makes the goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2024-which is theoretically possible but would require a lot of budgetary, political, and technical factors to fall the space agency's way - a Lunar Terrain Vehicle would follow in 2025.

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Last updated: 13 September 2020